Beancounters at analyst firm Gartner have added up some numbers and divided them by their collective shoe sizes and predicted a 9.6 percent decline in worldwide semiconductor revenue in 2019.
Big G said that the market will fall to $429 billion from the $475 billion recorded last year.
The drop means OEMs and hardware suppliers in the channel will see demand-driven oversupply in the DRAM market that will slash pricing down by 42.1 percent. All this will last until the second quarter of 2020.